jos1946
REPORT ON ALLOTMENT SHOW. JUDGES W.CHAMBERS, E.ROBINSON, P.MARTIN. SHOW SECRETARY ROBERT PUSEY 2ND LEFT. (DATE UNKNOWN)
Bread Pudding. When the Sex Discrimination Act came into being, I was also the Show Secretary as well as the Secretary. I realised that we could no longer have a Ladies Cup and announced that in the future the cup would have to be known as the Domestic Cup in order to allow both sexes to compete for it. Even my sisters, Betty Rackman and Beaty Crispin, who used to compete for it, refused to speak to me. I was told that no man would ever enter and so to prove a point, I agreed to enter all classes in the Domestic Section. This was not as mad as it seems, as being brought up as the youngest and only boy to a horde of sisters, surviving in the Forces for nine years and being a confirmed bachelor who likes to eat well, cooking and minor sewing were not alien to me. I did enter every class and not only did I beat my sisters in the cooking, but I won the cup. As we did not have a special Domestic Cup that year, mine was the only male name ever to appear on the old Ladies Cup. My speciality is bread pudding and the judges raved over mine and a fuss was made about it in the local press. As I later found out that quite a few of the men at the sites also made their own bread puddings, quite a number of them entered in that class at the following year's show and so we dubbed it the East London Bread Pudding Championship. Do not be fooled into believing that Les Rackman won the Bread Pudding class that year, as indicated by the picture, as my exhibit was declared the best by everyone who tasted it after the Show was over. My exhibit was disqualified, as it was nine and one eighth inches long, but, alas, the schedule specified "cooked in a nine inch tray". I had taken mine out of the tray and put it on a plate and it had slightly expanded. I could not believe it when I saw the N.A.S. card on my bread pudding. To add insult to injury, the Domestic Judge bought my bread pudding at the auction afterwards, saying it was the best she had tasted in years.
Fred Lineham.
REPORT ON ALLOTMENT SHOW. JUDGES W.CHAMBERS, E.ROBINSON, P.MARTIN. SHOW SECRETARY ROBERT PUSEY 2ND LEFT. (DATE UNKNOWN)
Bread Pudding. When the Sex Discrimination Act came into being, I was also the Show Secretary as well as the Secretary. I realised that we could no longer have a Ladies Cup and announced that in the future the cup would have to be known as the Domestic Cup in order to allow both sexes to compete for it. Even my sisters, Betty Rackman and Beaty Crispin, who used to compete for it, refused to speak to me. I was told that no man would ever enter and so to prove a point, I agreed to enter all classes in the Domestic Section. This was not as mad as it seems, as being brought up as the youngest and only boy to a horde of sisters, surviving in the Forces for nine years and being a confirmed bachelor who likes to eat well, cooking and minor sewing were not alien to me. I did enter every class and not only did I beat my sisters in the cooking, but I won the cup. As we did not have a special Domestic Cup that year, mine was the only male name ever to appear on the old Ladies Cup. My speciality is bread pudding and the judges raved over mine and a fuss was made about it in the local press. As I later found out that quite a few of the men at the sites also made their own bread puddings, quite a number of them entered in that class at the following year's show and so we dubbed it the East London Bread Pudding Championship. Do not be fooled into believing that Les Rackman won the Bread Pudding class that year, as indicated by the picture, as my exhibit was declared the best by everyone who tasted it after the Show was over. My exhibit was disqualified, as it was nine and one eighth inches long, but, alas, the schedule specified "cooked in a nine inch tray". I had taken mine out of the tray and put it on a plate and it had slightly expanded. I could not believe it when I saw the N.A.S. card on my bread pudding. To add insult to injury, the Domestic Judge bought my bread pudding at the auction afterwards, saying it was the best she had tasted in years.
Fred Lineham.